Necktie knot simulator



May 17, 1960 H. H. WILLIAMS, JR., ETAL 2,936,452

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ATTORNEYS United States Patent O NECKTIE KNOT SIMULATOR Herbert H. Williams, Jr., and Anton Ipser, Roanoke, V'a.; said Anton Ipser assigrlorV to Alvin W. Lipes Application August 8, 1957, Serial No. 677,021

1 Claim. (Cl. 2-150) This invention is designed to provide a new and im proved article which simulates the knot of -a four-in hand necktie and may be easily engaged with such a tie to give the appearance of an unusually well tied knot witbout the inconvenience and diiculty of actually tying the knot.

The device is in the form of a downwardly tapered and somewhat ilattened sleeve to occupy the position of the yusual knot after the tie has ybeen placed around the users neck and given one loop, said sleeve having a divided back wall which permits it to be expanded from a normally contracted condition during application to and removal from the tie.

An object of the invention is to form the sleeve from a central ply of textile fabric, a cover ply of textile tie fabric, a lining ply of textile rfabric, and a bonding material impregnating said central ply and the contiguous portions of the other two plies, said bonding material serving to unitarily bond the three plies together and to maintain the shape of the sleeve.

Another object of the invention is to make novel and advantageous provision for normally holding the sleeve in contracted condition and for allowing expansion of said sleeve when required.

A further object is to make novel and advantageous provision for antislipping cont-act with the tie to hold the sleeve against slipping out of place.

With the above and other objects in view that will become apparent as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel form, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and claimed.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation showing one form of the invention, portions of the tie being shown by dot-anddash lines;

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation;

Figs. 3 and 4 are enlarged sectional views on lines 2--2 and 3-3 of Figs. 1 and 2;

Fig. 5 is a front elevation showing a diierent form of construction;

Fig. 6 is a top view of the same form of construction;

Fig. 7 is Ian enlarged fragmentary elevation of a portion of the back wall and associated spring, as indicated by line 7-7 of Fig. 6;

Fig. 8 is a detail section on line 8-8 of Fig. 7; and

Figs. 9 and 10 are detail sectional views showing structural variations.

The knot-simulating sleeve 12 is downwardly tapered and somewhat ilattened into substantially elliptical form in horizontal section and is open at both its upper and lower ends. This sleeve comprises a front wall 13, rearwardly and inwardly curved edge walls 14, and wings extending inwardly from said edge walls 14 and jointly forming a divided back wall. In the form of construction shown in Figs. l to 4, these wings are shown at 15 and .are of triangular form with restricted inner ends 16.

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sleeve front wall 13, rearwardly within the edge walls 14,

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In Figs. 5 to 7, the wings are shown at 415a and have vertical inner edges 16a in abutting relation with each other.

The sleeve 12 is preferably composed of a central ply 17, a cover ply 18, a lining ply 19, and a bonding material 20 nnitarily joining said plies 17, 18 and 19 and maintaining the sleeve in proper shape. The central ply 17 is formed from canvas or other coarsely woven textile fabric, the cover ply 18 is of any preferred textile fabric such as those commonly used for neckties, and the lining ply 19 is preferably formed from the same textile fabric. The edges of the cover ply 18 are turned around the edges of the central ply 17 and are lapped by the edges of the lining ply 19, as seen at 21 in Figs. 3 and 4.

The bonding material 20 is preferably a resin adhesive material with which the central ply 17 is impregnated after cutting to shape. When the cover ply 18 'and lining ply 19 are placed in position and the`three-ply assembly shaped to form the sleeve, this assembly is heated and thus the three plies are united and the sleeve is suiiiciently stiffened to retain its shape. During these operations, some of the resin 20 with which the central ply 18 is impregnated, also impregnates the contiguous portions of the plies 18 and 19 and tightly secu-res them in place.

In the form of construction shown in Figs. l to 4, a C-shaped spring 22 formed from a flat strip of spring metal, is embedded between the cover ply 18 and the central ply 17 to yieldably hold the sleeve 12 in the desired contracted form and to permit `any necessary expansion of said sleeve during application to the tie, or The spring 22 extends horizontally within the inwardly within the back wings 15, and terminates in the wing ends 16.

In Figs. 5, 6 and 7, a vertically elongated arched spring 23, formed from a length of spring wire, is disposed at the inner side of the b-ack wings `15a and located at the inner ends of said wings. The crown portion 24 of the spring 23 extends across the end edges 16a of the wings 15a, and the legs 25 of said spring are disposed on said wings, respectively. The upper end portions of the legs 25 are more widely separated than the lower end portions, and said upper end portions are secured by stitches or the like 26 to the wings 15a. Additional stitches or the like 27 secure the lower end portions of the legs to the wings 15a along the lower end portions of the edges 16a. The upper end portions of the edges 16a are secured together by stitches or the like 28.

The spring 23 holds the sleeve 12 normally in contracted condition to engage the tie but permits expansion of the lower end of said sleeve to facilitate engagement of said sleeve with the tie, or removal of said sleeve.

A iiat strip of rubber 29 (Figs. 5 to 8) may be secured to the inner side of the sleeve 12 `for anti-slipping contact with the tie, or rubber strands 30 (Fig. 9) may be woven into the -fabric lining 19 for the same purpose.

If desired, a C-shaped spring 22a (Fig. l0) corresponding to the spring 22, may be secured to the lining 19 and this spring may carry a` rubber strip 29a to antislippingly contact with the tie.

After passing the tie around the users neck, it is given one loop and the sleeve 12 is then applied to the tie to cover this loop and give the appearance of a per` Patented May 17, 1960,

yieldingly holding them substantially together, saidspring 10 means comprising a U-shaped spring positioned on the inner @face of the back wall so as to lie in a plane parallel to .and against said back wall, said spring means having its legs connected to the lower portions-of said inner edges and its bight directed toward the wider up- ,Y ,i 4 per end of the downwardly tapered sleeve, whereby a yielding' force will be concentrated at the narrow tie gripping lower end of said simulator.

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